Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges writes a regular column for Truthdig.com. Hedges graduated from Harvard Divinity School and was for nearly two decades a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. He is the author of many books, including: War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning, What Every Person Should Know About War, and American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. His most recent book is Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle.
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Views Thursday, October 18, 2018 The Rats Revolt There is no American who has fought with more tenacity, courage and integrity to expose the crimes of corporate power and to thwart the corporate coup d’état that has destroyed our democracy than Ralph Nader. Not one. There is little he has not tried in that effort. He has written investigative... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 08, 2018 Homeless America It is 8 a.m. I am in the small offices of Street Roots , a weekly newspaper that prints 10,000 copies per edition. Those who sell the newspaper on the streets—all of them victims of extreme poverty and half of them homeless—have gathered before heading out with their bundles to spend hours in the... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 01, 2018 Lynching the Past I boarded the Gone With the Wind Tour bus outside the train depot built in 1867 to replace the depot burned during the Civil War. The building now houses the Road to Tara Museum . It has displays of “ Gone With the Wind ” movie memorabilia including dolls of Mammy, played in the film by Hattie... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 25, 2018 American Anomie The French sociologist Emile Durkheim in his classic book “ On Suicide ” examined the disintegration of social bonds that drive individuals and societies to personal and collective acts of self-destruction. He found that when social bonds are strong, individuals achieve a healthy balance between... Read more |
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Views Monday, September 03, 2018 The Slaves Rebel The only way to end slavery is to stop being a slave. Hundreds of men and women in prisons in some 17 states are refusing to carry out prison labor, conducting hunger strikes or boycotting for-profit commissaries in an effort to abolish the last redoubt of legalized slavery in America. The strikers... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 27, 2018 Becoming Serfs You know the statistics. Income inequality in the United States has not been this pronounced in over a century. The top 10 percent has 50 percent of the country’s income, and the upper 1 percent has 20 percent of the country’s income. A quarter of American workers struggle on wages of less than $10... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 20, 2018 Saying Goodbye to Planet Earth The spectacular rise of human civilization—its agrarian societies, cities, states, empires and industrial and technological advances ranging from irrigation and the use of metals to nuclear fusion—took place during the last 10,000 years, after the last ice age. Much of North America was buried,... Read more |
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Views Thursday, July 26, 2018 Chomsky, Prashad, Hedges and Other Leading Intellectuals: Denuclearize the Middle East The Middle East is in turmoil now, possibly again on the verge of a major war that could draw in the United States and Russia. President Donald Trump has pulled the United States out of the six-nation nuclear agreement with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA. Although a... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 16, 2018 The War on Assange Is a War on Press Freedom The failure on the part of establishment media to defend Julian Assange, who has been trapped in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since 2012, has been denied communication with the outside world since March and appears to be facing imminent expulsion and arrest, is astonishing. The extradition of... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 09, 2018 The Con of Diversity In 1970, when black students occupied the dean’s office at Harvard Divinity School to protest against the absence of African-American scholars on the school’s faculty, the white administration was forced to respond and interview black candidates. It asked James Cone , the greatest theologian of his... Read more |